The biggest problem I have with the iPad is that even modest text entry is very painful due to the lack of arrow keys on the soft keyboard. For example on websites like this forum, submitting a couple of paragraphs of text is extreme frustrating particularly when you need to correct a typo a couple lines back. For some reason repositioning the cursor by screen tapping is unreliable and sometimes impossible. And forget about when the text exceeds the size of the website's text window since you cannot scroll text within a text window.

thanks for the mag glass tip... I tried... I think it will take some practice, but mostly it doesn't help at all if the text is larger than the web text window since the cursor position you might want is OUTSIDE of the viewing area... and text scrolling can be difficult or impossible on some websites without the help of arrow keys.

Even the Mac wireless keyboard doesn't have a delete key as standard, has to be programmed with a keymapper. Someone needs to produce an Ipad keymapper if Apple won't give us our arrow keys!
Come you App nuts, here's your chance to make a fortune!!!!

I would welcome arrow keys as well. I often forget about the mag glass and by the time I think to use it I'm already frustrated because simply tapping on a work SHOULD place the cursed where you tap... At least so says common logic thanks to years of working like that on every other computer and device.

The dark gray bar atop the keyboard would be an ideal place to place a drop down button for arrow keys.

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